The True Politics of the Paranoid Style
American liberals took leave of reason after JFK's murder.
BY FRED SIEGEL
Opinion Journal
'Inherit the Wind' is running on Broadway again, night after night pitting the righteously rational Clarence Darrow against the Bible-thumping antievolutionist William Jennings Bryan. The 1955 play--a chestnut of high-school English courses across the country--concerns the Scopes 'Monkey Trial' of 1925 and is meant to capture the moment in American history when science and reason superseded, at last, the myth and superstition of foolish reactionaries. It has become something of a liberal .... " Read on.
BY FRED SIEGEL
Opinion Journal
'Inherit the Wind' is running on Broadway again, night after night pitting the righteously rational Clarence Darrow against the Bible-thumping antievolutionist William Jennings Bryan. The 1955 play--a chestnut of high-school English courses across the country--concerns the Scopes 'Monkey Trial' of 1925 and is meant to capture the moment in American history when science and reason superseded, at last, the myth and superstition of foolish reactionaries. It has become something of a liberal .... " Read on.
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